1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.
1 Kings 19:14
Then he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Nehemiah 9:26
“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.
Romans 11:3
“Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my
2 Kings 6:31
Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”
Jeremiah 38:4
Then the officials said to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm.”
Jeremiah 11:21
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, so that you will not die at our hand”;
Matthew 23:3
so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Jeremiah 2:30
“In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
Matthew 21:35
The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. (in this Parable, the "slaves" represent the prophets sent by the vineyard owner" (God))
Matthew 22:6
and the rest seized his slaves (prophets) and mistreated them and killed them.
Mark 12:3-8
They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he (God) sent them another slave (prophet), and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others (prophets), beating some and killing others.
Matthew 23:30
and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
Matthew 23:31
So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,
2 Kings 9:7
You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!
Acts 7:52
Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become
Revelation 16:6
for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink.
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The role of the prophet in the Old and New Testaments was a thankless task and a high-risk occupation because often their message was not what "God's people" wanted to hear - but what they needed to know!
As the verses indicate, the murder of God's prophets was a reoccurring theme throughout the Bible and their relationships with Israel's kings and queens was often tenuous at best - because their messages were interpreted a direct threat to their power!
Conversely, God's people were much more receptive to the false prophets who only represented themselves and were therefore in a position to tell them what they wanted to hear!
